US1189580A - Drawer-slide. - Google Patents

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J. W KENYONL DRAWER SLIDE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 19(4.

Patented July 4, 1916,

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

WITNESSES 5%,? am. c ML? ATTORNEY J. W. KENYON.

DRAWER SLIDE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 1914.

Patented July 4, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- I 4 4 ATTORNEY AYES W. ENYON, OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE SHAW-WALKER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

DRAWER-SLIDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4:, 1916.

Application filed May 4, 1914. Serial No. 836,052. 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, items W. KnNYoN, a citizen of the United States, resldlng at Muskegon, in the county of Muskegon and of that character which shall be very easy of operation; and further, whose members shall be readily assembled and disassembled; and further, which shall be improved -1n various particulars hereinafter appearing. This object is attained'by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the structure hereinafter described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1,is a perspective view of a cab1 net to which my invention is applied; Fig. 2 isa view of my drawer slide carried on the inner surface of a side of such cabinet; F1g. 3 is an enlarged vertical sectional view of the same taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and showing a fragment of the drawer. Fig. 4 is a like view taken on line JP-4c of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a like View taken on line 5-5 of supported. medially of its length by' the gulded member or roller 7 and being also supported whenthe drawer 8 is pushed in by the inner roller 9 both which travel in the lower guide 5; A suitable guided memthrust of such ultimate slide-member when drawn out being resisted or sustained by a roller 15. .A suitable stop 16 against which the lug 10 strikes, limits the outward movepivoted on the intermediate member and adapted to be turned into its stop position shown in the drawings when it is engaged by the-lug 18 in the drawn-out position of the drawer, and also to be turned on its pivot out of such stop position; when this is done, the drawer with the ultimate members may be entirely withdrawn from the cabinet, whereupon the intermediate slide-members may also be withdrawn by moving them to the position shown in Fig. 6, wherein the roller 7 registers with a gap 19 in the side flange or wall 20 of the lower guide 5: the lower part of this roller may now be moved through this gap, and by further withdrawing the intermediate member till the roller 9 registers with the gap, it too may be moved through it, thus removing the interinediate-slide member entirely.

A suitable bufier 21, preferably of rubber, carried at the inner end of the intermediate member, may be provided to receive the stroke of the back 22 of the cabinet on one side and that of the inner end of the drawer on the other, when the drawer is pushed in. The upper and lower guides 4; and 5 are ofi set from the face of the primary slide-member 1 (by having their inner. wall spaced from the inner' surface of said member as shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5) suficiently to hold the intermediate slide member 6 out of contact therewith, whereby friction is minimized; and the hubs 23 provided on one side the lower rollers allow free movement of theretaining flange 24 of the ultimate member 'ment is limited by the L-shaped stop 17 i by spacing it from the intermediate slidemember.

It will be seen thatby my arrangement.

of the slide-members withtheir flanges, the rollers are approximately in the same vertical plane, the intermediate slide-member and the sustaining flange of the ultimate slide-member being thus located within the lateral dimension and also the vertical dimensionof the primary slide-member, thus eeonomizmg space.

It Will be seen' (particularly in Figs. 2,

and 6) that the roller 7. is loosely mounted on the intermediate slide member 6, so that its axis has a vertical play on or relatively 11a to such slide-member. The effect of this arrangement is, that when the drawer is pulled out far enough for the roller 14 to pass outside of and drop off of the guide 5, the intermediate slide-members outer end is permitted to fall slightly, (such member turning on the axis of the roller 9 as a fulcrum), and the horizontally-extending flange 13 of the ultimate slide-member 12 (which carries the drawer) will be pressed or pinched by gravity between the roller 7 below and the roller 15 above, thus causing .the roller 7 to tractionally engage saidflange, so that-the drawers motion in either direction moves the intermediate slide-member at half speed.

Not confining myself to details of construction shown or described, I claim 1. In a device of the character described, a primaryslide-member having upper and lower guides one. of which has a gap through its lateral wall, an intermediate slide-member traveling in said guides and having a guided member, and an ultimate slide-member movably supported on the ininsopso 'termediate slidemember, said guided mema primary slide-member, an intermediate slide-member slidable on the primary slidemember, and an ultimate slide-member slid able on the intermediate slide-member; one of said slide-members having a guide with a lateral wall and a gap through said wall, and another of said slide-members having a guided member slidable in said guide and adapted in one position to be moved outwardly through said gap from the guide in which it slides.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 'my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES W. KENYON. Witnesses:

DAVID E. HUNTER, C. B. VANSLUKE.

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